{"id":2918,"date":"2024-11-18T21:31:06","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T21:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=2918"},"modified":"2024-11-18T21:31:06","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T21:31:06","slug":"trump-digs-deeper-into-cryptocurrency-bakkt-shares-soar-on-reported-interest-from-president-elects-media-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=2918","title":{"rendered":"Trump Digs Deeper Into Cryptocurrency? Bakkt Shares Soar On Reported Interest From President-Elect&#8217;s Media Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Donald Trump <\/strong>was viewed as the more pro-cryptocurrency presidential candidate in the 2024 election and his support for crypto could get another push with a report that his media company is acquiring a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/21\/01\/19071375\/spac-surges-64-on-report-of-merger-talks-with-ice-owned-crypto-exchange-bakkt\"> cryptocurrency trading company.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened:<\/strong> Shares of <strong>Bakkt Holdings<\/strong> (NASDAQ:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/BKKT#NASDAQ\">BKKT<\/a>) are soaring Monday on reports the cryptocurrency company, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/21\/04\/20550003\/3-cryptocurrency-spacs-that-could-run-on-a-successful-coinbase-ipo\">which went public <\/a>in October 2021 via SPAC merger, is being acquired by <strong>Trump Media &amp; Technology Group <\/strong>(NASDAQ:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/DJT#NASDAQ\">DJT<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The media company co-founded by Trump, which owns the Truth Social platform, is in advanced talks to acquire Bakkt, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/d7f921d5-3668-4b6b-a98d-2681ad73610f\">according <\/a>to the Financial Times. The report said Trump Media &amp; Technology Group would acquire the cryptocurrency company, which is backed by <strong>Intercontinental Exchange<\/strong> (NYSE:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/ICE#NYSE\">ICE<\/a>), in an all-share deal.<\/p>\n<p>Benzinga reached out to Trump Media &amp; Technology Group for comment on the report and will update &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/general\/social-media\/24\/11\/42048594\/trump-digs-deeper-into-cryptocurrency-bakkt-shares-soar-on-reported-interest-from-president-\" alt=\"Trump\" digs deeper into cryptocurrency bakkt shares soar on reported interest from president-elect media company>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump was viewed as the more pro-cryptocurrency presidential candidate in the 2024 election and his support for crypto could get another push with a report that his media company is acquiring a cryptocurrency trading company. What Happened: Shares of Bakkt Holdings (NASDAQ:BKKT) are soaring Monday on reports the cryptocurrency company, which went public in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-2918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}